{"id":43379,"date":"2009-11-17T10:36:57","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T15:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theappleblog.com\/?p=35844"},"modified":"2009-11-17T10:36:57","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T15:36:57","slug":"apple%e2%80%99s-black-friday-sales-leaked-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/43379","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s Black Friday Sales Leaked Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-35852\" title=\"apple-black-friday\" src=\"http:\/\/gigapple.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/apple-black-friday.jpg?w=240&#038;h=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/>If you&#8217;re planning your holiday shopping but want to get a good grasp of the budget available to you in advance, it helps to know what kind of deals you&#8217;re going to get. Luckily, Apple&#8217;s Black Friday discounts have been leaked early, so you can factor in those price reductions while you&#8217;re figuring out how pinched you&#8217;re going to be financially come January.<\/p>\n<p>Boy Genius Report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boygeniusreport.com\/2009\/11\/16\/apples-black-friday-deals-leaked\/\" >got the early tip-off<\/a>, from an anonymous source. It comes in the form of what looks like a flyer image, detailing some pretty significant discounts on all things Apple, basically. They&#8217;re deep enough that you&#8217;d probably do well to hold off any Mac or iPod-related purchase for at least another 10 days just in case. <span id=\"more-35844\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what we&#8217;re looking at, if the rumors prove true:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Up to 30 percent off all iPods (excluding iPhone and iPod shuffle)<\/li>\n<li>Up to 25 percent off all Macs<\/li>\n<li>Up to 15 percent off all accessories, Apple software and Apple hardware<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The sales seem to be available in Apple retail stores only, since the poster also states that &#8220;Select Apple stores open at 6 am,&#8221; and a line at the bottom advertises the new availability of in-store gift-wrapping. Last year we saw online Black Friday discounts, though, so it&#8217;s possible we&#8217;ll see them again.<\/p>\n<p>If these deals do indeed come to pass, they would be pretty significant compared with <a href=\"http:\/\/theappleblog.com\/2008\/12\/02\/macbook-and-apples-black-friday-sale-almost-but-not-quite-enough\/\" >previous Black Friday sales<\/a> by the Mac maker. Twenty-five percent off of all Macs is a very good discount, for example, and would result in a $500 discount on the Core i5 27-inch iMac, or a $250 discount on the entry-level MacBook. Compare that to a $101 discount on the MacBook last year, and a $101 discount on the top model iMac.<\/p>\n<p>The teaser image leaked by BGR is fairly convincing, in that it does seem to use design cues and aesthetics currently favored by Apple in its marketing materials, but it&#8217;s hard not to be skeptical in the face of sound business sense &#8212; considering Apple&#8217;s previous Black Friday discounts, and the fact that last time I checked, it really wasn&#8217;t in a position to need to offer big price cuts to bolster sales.<\/p>\n<p>If these do prove true, I&#8217;ve been putting a new Time Capsule or Airport Extreme purchase on the back burner for quite some time now, and that 15 percent off is nothing to sneeze at, given Apple&#8217;s usual reluctance to offer any kind of price cut at all. Anyone else planning on making a purchase if these discounts really do apply? 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